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"The Freeman Returns" with The Official Orange Box Thread
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I pre-ordered via Steam the other day. TF2 is the shizzle, n I played Ep1 through for the first time.
I FORGOT HOW FUCKING AWESOME HL2 IS.
For all their flaws, Valve are gameplay geniuses, up on the same pedestal as Epic. I could play with the dark matter anti grav gun all day. There is nothing more satisfying as throwing a dude 100ft up into the air and smacking them into walls.
The engine flys on my core2quad n lowly x1800xt. I hope Ep 2 does too.
*Fap*
I hope Valve nail the controller for the console versions. I needed some quick reactions in Ep1.
I FORGOT HOW FUCKING AWESOME HL2 IS.
For all their flaws, Valve are gameplay geniuses, up on the same pedestal as Epic. I could play with the dark matter anti grav gun all day. There is nothing more satisfying as throwing a dude 100ft up into the air and smacking them into walls.
The engine flys on my core2quad n lowly x1800xt. I hope Ep 2 does too.
*Fap*
I hope Valve nail the controller for the console versions. I needed some quick reactions in Ep1.
I building a new PC and hope to receive all components this week.
Hope I'll be in time for Ep 2! Will be replaying Ep1 if there's enough time. Can't wait.
What's really weird though,
when I log in on my primary account (a half-press account with which I can play betas), I can't login to friends (the button even dissappears in my main menu), my nickname on TF2 is [unknown] and the whole steam community thing doesn't really work.
When I log on to a second account, everything works fine (can't really test TF2 though). I'm thinking of registering Orange Box on my secondary account unless it gets fixed.. Which I don't really see happening. Steam support hasn't replied since I filed it a week ago.
Hope I'll be in time for Ep 2! Will be replaying Ep1 if there's enough time. Can't wait.
What's really weird though,
when I log in on my primary account (a half-press account with which I can play betas), I can't login to friends (the button even dissappears in my main menu), my nickname on TF2 is [unknown] and the whole steam community thing doesn't really work.
When I log on to a second account, everything works fine (can't really test TF2 though). I'm thinking of registering Orange Box on my secondary account unless it gets fixed.. Which I don't really see happening. Steam support hasn't replied since I filed it a week ago.
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Herpes Reasons
Banned
7 more days til my social life goes into suicide.
I bought this for my PC and play TF2 almost every night. I jumped on the 360 version deal on EB. Got it for $55.00 with free overnight shipping. Too many online games between my PC and 360. Not to mention Warhawk which I still play an enjoy. This gaming year is just taking all of my money.
gregor7777
Banned
What's everyone estimates on how the 360 version will sell?
I'm going to say 750,000. I'd like to say more, but I think I'm reaching a bit.
Mostly because of ignorance and timing. With Halo 3 release two weeks before, and alot of multiplayers looking forward to COD4 in Nov, I see this title being overlooked.
I'm going to say 750,000. I'd like to say more, but I think I'm reaching a bit.
Mostly because of ignorance and timing. With Halo 3 release two weeks before, and alot of multiplayers looking forward to COD4 in Nov, I see this title being overlooked.
MrPing1000
Member
Hopefully it'll bomb on consoles.
AltogetherAndrews
Member
I dread to read reviews for the PS3 versions of these games. I'm getting the PC versions anyway so it doesn't matter much to me, but with the way Gabe has been talking about the system... urgh, it's not going to be pretty.
I pre-ordered this last night. When Half Life 2 first came out I only had a Mac so I didn't have the chance to play it (Damn you Gabe Newell!!!) so this will be a first for me. I'll probably jump into TF2 when I get home from work.
I forgot about Portal, but after the most recent GFW podcast I'm really hyped for it. I think I might be looking forward to that game more than any of the others. Does anyone else feel the same way?
I forgot about Portal, but after the most recent GFW podcast I'm really hyped for it. I think I might be looking forward to that game more than any of the others. Does anyone else feel the same way?
tinfoilhatman
all of my posts are my avatar
360 and PS3 waiting for release, all I need to know is whcih verison has better graphics\fr, the PS3 controller isn't great for FPS so it's already has a 1\2 point against it.
veggiestick2000
Member
madmook said:
Yeah I'm wondering this same thing but no one seems to know yet. I hope it's 90 on the consoles, or else I'm probably in for a lot of puking...
AltogetherAndrews
Member
Speevy said:
The only thing is has going for it is that it's supposedly developed by Criterion, meaning it's not developed by any random handful of people at EA. But that may not mean much.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Can someone help me, please? I installed Steam on this pc once, and it was doing some weird shit, like constantly timing out, so I uninstalled it. Now, when i went back to the site to grab the installer again, it keeps saying:
The installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a Valid Windows Installer package.
>:|
Rolling back to before I uninstalled it the first time, isn't an option, at this point.
I want to play HL2 at a stable framerate, and good graphics.
The installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a Valid Windows Installer package.
>:|
Rolling back to before I uninstalled it the first time, isn't an option, at this point.
I want to play HL2 at a stable framerate, and good graphics.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
5 Games in One Box
civilstrife
Member
I am absoluetely stumped as to which version I should buy.
I played and loved HL2 and ep:1 on my PC, which I haven't upgraded since HL2 came out.
(Radeon 9800 with 1gig of RAM and 2 GHz CPU)
HL2 ran great at the time, at full settings, but without any crazy AA or trilinear filtering or the like.
ep:1, however, introduced HDR which, while awesome, lowered my framerate significantly and seemed to crash the game alot.
I'd love to be able to play through them all again at full settings and without crazy long loading, so the 360 version is very appealing. But these games are obviously designed for mouse and keyboard play, and I really believe that it'd be better with that control scheme than the 360 pad.
Also, you just KNOW that there's going to be some awesome user created content for both Portal and TF:2 that I don't know I want to miss out on.
MS really has to suck it up and make this choice easier for us by allowing M/K support and user created content.
What are the rest of you doing?
I played and loved HL2 and ep:1 on my PC, which I haven't upgraded since HL2 came out.
(Radeon 9800 with 1gig of RAM and 2 GHz CPU)
HL2 ran great at the time, at full settings, but without any crazy AA or trilinear filtering or the like.
ep:1, however, introduced HDR which, while awesome, lowered my framerate significantly and seemed to crash the game alot.
I'd love to be able to play through them all again at full settings and without crazy long loading, so the 360 version is very appealing. But these games are obviously designed for mouse and keyboard play, and I really believe that it'd be better with that control scheme than the 360 pad.
Also, you just KNOW that there's going to be some awesome user created content for both Portal and TF:2 that I don't know I want to miss out on.
MS really has to suck it up and make this choice easier for us by allowing M/K support and user created content.
What are the rest of you doing?
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Anyone see the Orange Box commercial ? I just saw it right now while watching RAW on USA. It starts off with "What's inside the Orange Box ? ... The greatest game ever." in a robotic voice :lol